Improved brake-shoe



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' Letters Patent "No, 94,960, dated September 21, 1869.

IMPROVED BRAKE-$3025.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Amos A. Ho'ronxrss, of Hannibal, Marion county, State of 7 Missouri, have invented replaced by a new one in an expeditions manner.

A, figs. 1, 2, represents the shoe;

B, fig. 1, the sole; and

G, figs. 1, 2, the opening in the shoe to receive the 'hra'keheam.

The sole B is furnished with two dovetailed projections 0r lugs, d at, having shoulders, 1 2 3 4, as'seen, the one being an exact counterpart of the other.

In the shoe are made two openings or recesses, h h, as seen, for the reception of these lugs, and h has pivoted in it a catch, 7), having a spring, 0, which may .be straight or spiral, as desired.

Over the inner end of the catch is an opening, g, figs. 1, 2, to insert a rod or other suitable instrument, in order to press back the catch.

- The spring and catch are easily accessible through 'the opening 0 in the shoe, whenever necessary for re- .pairs or other reason.

,The sole is attached by inserting one lug in h, and then pressing the other against the catch, which, giving way, allows it to. pass, and immediately springs back, firmly locking the shoe by pressing the lugs against the sides of the recesses, as seen.

Should one end of the sole become more worn than the other, as is often the case, by simply'p're-ssing back the catch through the opening g, the sole may be removed, and, by reason of ,the exact similarity of the lugs, changedend for fend in its shoe till, being completely worn out, anotheris substituted. ,This power of reversing the sole so as to obtain all the wear out of it of which it is susceptible, is one great advantage of my peculiar construction. 1

Another is the rapidity with which this change can be made, and the extreme simplicity of its construction, which'almost precludes the possibility of its getting out of order.

I am aware that the soles-of brake-shoes have been attachedtotheir shoes by dovetailed projections, so as to dispd'iise with bolts and screws, and therefore I do; not claim, broadly, this construction; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The spring-catch 11, working in a socket in the brake-shoe, for the purpose of holding the sole in place, constructed and operating substantially as herein described and shown.

2. The sole B, with its lugs, shoe A, spring 0, and catch b, all arranged, constructed, and operating substantially as and for the purpose shown and specified.

AMOS A.,HOTOHKISS.

Witnesses:

S. S. ALLEN, S. R. CARTER. 

